Habenaria rhodocheilaHance

WFO wfo-0000978543 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Habenaria rhodocheila, photographed by luluchouette
fig. a luluchouette, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-12 / obs. 180145675
Habenaria rhodocheila, photographed by Aaron Liston
fig. b Aaron Liston, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9554521
Habenaria rhodocheila, photographed by luluchouette
fig. c luluchouette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180145687
Habenaria rhodocheila, photographed by luluchouette
fig. d luluchouette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180145705
Habenaria rhodocheila, photographed by luluchouette
fig. e luluchouette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180145720
Habenaria rhodocheila, photographed by luluchouette
fig. f luluchouette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180145748
Habenaria rhodocheila, photographed by Apichart Songsangchun
fig. g Apichart Songsangchun, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171956984

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Habenaria rhodocheila is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Assam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanAssamCambodiaLaosMalayaMyanmarPhilippinesThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Habenaria rhodocheila, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Cambodia CBD
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Philippines PHI
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Habenaria erichmichelii Christenson
  • Habenaria militaris Rchb.f.
  • Habenaria militaris var. philippinensis Ames
  • Habenaria pusilla Rchb.f.
  • Habenaria roeblenii Rolfe
  • Habenaria xanthochila Ridl.
  • Pecteilis rhodocheila (Hance) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
  • Pecteilis rhodocheila subsp. philippinensis (Ames) Cootes
  • Smithanthe erichmichaelii (Christenson) Szlach. & Marg.
  • Smithanthe rhodocheila (Hance) Szlach. & Marg.
  • Smithanthe rhodocheila subsp. philippinensis (Ames) Szlach. & Marg.
  • Smithanthe rhodochelia (Hance) Szlach. & Marg.
  • Smithanthe rhodochelia subsp. philippinensis (Ames) Szlach. & Marg.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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